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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

1,656 stories in Murray's papers · page 19 of 83

Palestine Wheat

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 18

A wheat said to grow wild on the stony mountain slopes and cleft soft rock in the driest portion of Mount Hermon, in Eastern Palestine, was reported to possess…

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Sheep Eat Dead Rabbits

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 16

There has been considerable mortality amongst, sheep in the surrounding districts this year owing to the animals eating the carcases of poisoned rabbits. Mr. T. T…

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Australian Wheat Yields

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 3

In the recent issue of official statistics made by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, the total of the Australian wheat yield for…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Sowing Lucerne

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 17

Farmers who are proposing to sow in cerne during this and the following months, may find the following remarks useful. They are taken from Farmers' Bulletin,…

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Butter Churned While You Wait

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 4

A New York grocer has combined an advertising novelty and a sources of profit in a butter churn, which is in almost constant operation in his store. The…

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Bulk Handling of Wheat. Parliamentary Proposal

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 4

The subject of the bulk handling of [?] Assembly last week [?] motion of Mr Ball:—…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 4
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

These notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. by the N:s:w: Department of Agriculture Varieties of Wheat. Recommended by the Department

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 4

In the Agricultural Gazette for February, and in various newspapers. a list has appeared of the varieties of wheat which the Department of Agriculture is…

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Railway Extension to Open Up Wheat Country

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 41

Miners gave the Wyalong district a start, and have helped to make it what it is to-day. It is hard to imagine what there would have been any settlement…

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Varieties of Wheat. Recommended by the Department

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 4

In the "Agricultural Gazette" for February, and in various newspapers, a list has appeared of the varieties of wheat which the Department of…

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Vagaries in Sheep-breeding. the Rise of the Romney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 16

The recent sale of Mr. J. B. Reid's stud flocks of Romney Marsh, Border Leicester, English Leicester, and Lincoln sheep on his Elderslie estate, near Oamaru, N.Z., has…

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Tallangatta Show. a Splendid Success. Exceptionally fINE Fat Cattle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 2

The Tallangatta A. and I'. Society held its. fifteenth annual show yesterday. The weather was perfect and rarely, if ever, has a larger crowd of people assembled on…

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American Tariff. Duties on Wool. Washington, March 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 43

The Democratic leader (Mr. Underwood) has introduced in the House of Represenatives a wool tariff bill, which levies a 20 per cent. ad valorem duty on raw wool…

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Hunter River Dairy Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 7

The present need of the people for land, particular dairying situated close to markets, is having the effect of putting on the market some of the old and well known…

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Lecture by Mr. E. J. Gorman. Handling Wheat in Canada

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 5

On Thursday Evening Mr. E. J. Gorman, of "Nangunia," Berrigan, delivered a lecture in the Athenaeum Hall, Yarrawonga, on his travels abroad. Mr…

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The Royal Show. a Milk and a Half of Horses -- Ten Furlongs of Cattle

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 6

Same very interesting measurements have been taken at the Sydney Show Ground during the last week. All the horse boxes, the horse stalls, and the…

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Dry Farming in America. Green Manuring

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 16

Professor Chilcott has been a strong advocate for the introduction of a system of rotation to displace the one-crop practice. He admits that in the Great Plains area…

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Mixed Farming Is the Thing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 18

In his address before the Conservation Congress on the relation of Live Stock to Fertility, Dean Mumford, of the Missouri College, said:—…

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Wagga Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 33

At the annual meeting of the eastern district Riverina council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, Mr. Thomas Short was re-elected president. Messrs. W. F…

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